199.9

[Funky_Chicken]

For a litre of diesel at scotch corner services when i drove past yesterday robbing b***ds ! I remember my dad complaining when it went up to 50p a gallon in the 70’s

 

[WindyNook]

For a litre of diesel at scotch corner services when i drove past yesterday robbing b***ds ! I remember my dad complaining when it went up to 50p a gallon in the 70’s

Don't worry Johnson will bring back gallons and pounds shillings and pence then everything will be alright!

 

[WindyNook]

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[The_Unicorn]

For a litre of diesel at scotch corner services when i drove past yesterday robbing b***ds ! I remember my dad complaining when it went up to 50p a gallon in the 70’s

Wait till Johnson makes petrol stations sell in gallons and everyone realises it's not far off £8.00 a gallon.

 

[Funky_Chicken]

Wait till Johnson makes petrol stations sell in gallons and everyone realises it's not far off £8.00 a gallon.

199.9 is just shy of £9 a gallon

 

[h_m_boro]

It's in the governments interest keeping the prices high as they are getting about 90p per litre back in fuel duty. 5p cut by Sunak heralded as a massive help to the public.......but then we've seen about 10p litre stuck on.
What I don't get is that when oil was about $120 barrell last year, fuel was around the £1.30 litre (I think). Now same price but 50-60p litre more expensive. How does that work?

 

[The_Unicorn]

199.9 is just shy of £9 a gallon

Yeah, I was going on the £1.70 average around here

 

[Funky_Chicken]

It's in the governments interest keeping the prices high as they are getting about 90p per litre back in fuel duty. 5p cut by Sunak heralded as a massive help to the public.......but then we've seen about 10p litre stuck on.
What I don't get is that when oil was about $120 barrell last year, fuel was around the £1.30 litre (I think). Now same price but 50-60p litre more expensive. How does that work?

It’s the destruction of the middle classes

 

[r00fie1]

I remember the lads in the NOPs saying if a pint goes over 40p they would stop drinking

 

[Redwurzel]

It's in the governments interest keeping the prices high as they are getting about 90p per litre back in fuel duty. 5p cut by Sunak heralded as a massive help to the public.......but then we've seen about 10p litre stuck on.
What I don't get is that when oil was about $120 barrell last year, fuel was around the £1.30 litre (I think). Now same price but 50-60p litre more expensive. How does that work?

Its almost $120 per barrel again, but this time the pound is worth less against the dollar.

There seems to be quite a difference in price now between garages it ranges from £1.60 to £1.80 where I live for UL. Motorways have become a different world pricewise anyone has to be desperate to buy anything there.

 

[Oooo]

Just paid 1.84 diesel at co-op guisborough

 

[Rofesleg]

I remember the lads in the NOPs saying if a pint goes over 40p they would stop drinking

Wages were probably lower then.

 

[The_Unicorn]

Just paid 1.84 diesel at co-op guisborough

Yet £1.60 at Stockton ASDA yesterday?

 

[Funky_Chicken]

One thing for sure is oil company bosses and shareholders are laughing down their sleeves at us

 

[h_m_boro]

One thing for sure is oil company bosses and shareholders are laughing down their sleeves at us

And the OPEC Cabal

 

[uncle_rico]

The country has just seemed to accept these price rises in petrol/diesel and with utility bills. Not to mention food and other household necessities. I don’t really know what we as a society can do, but I suppose that’s probably the point, is that they know people can’t boycott these things en masse.

 

[Aet290204]

Same at Corley Services on the M6 on Saturday.

Didn’t need to fill up but I readily admit I was more annoyed at paying £6.50 for a Six pack of estrella dam at the Waitrose though.

 

[r00fie1]

Remember the kick-back against the poll tax.
What is going to be the straw which breaks the camels back?
The dam will break.........

 

[MolteniArcore]

The country has just seemed to accept these price rises in petrol/diesel and with utility bills. Not to mention food and other household necessities. I don’t really know what we as a society can do, but I suppose that’s probably the point, is that they know people can’t boycott these things en masse.

Remember the fuel blockades? That's what we can do. Queues at petrol stations, people not being able to get to work etc etc... And you know what? It worked.

Nowadays people have been brainwashed to think such action is wrong by (yet again) the Tory media. Extinction Rebellion etc take direct action and mums in Chelsea Tractors try to push them off the roads in their cars.

Direct action is needed. You know what... it might just help us get rid of Johnson too. We need a summer of discontent.

 

[MolteniArcore]

Same at Corley Services on the M6 on Saturday.

Didn’t need to fill up but I readily admit I was more annoyed at paying £6.50 for a Six pack of estrella dam at the Waitrose though.

Beer in supermarkets seems to have shot up too - it's not that cheap anymore to get decent booze.